Jenna’s Model Life

Entries from June 2008

Mambo Italiano

June 27, 2008 · 11 Comments

Jumping in Placa Duomo

So. I’m in Milan.

It’s not without its charm.

In this particular Cleopatra-mosaiced arcade a classical pianist regaled a small crowd of shoppers.

I’ve been here two days. It’s hot as a bitch, but all the bartenders seem to have magnificent pitching arms.

Would you believe they wouldn’t let me into the cathedral in my shorts? Immediate flashback to the Maltese grandmother who yelled at me in her native tongue for besmirching the sanctitude of her neighbourhood church in a sundress four years ago. Oh, conservative Mediterranean Catholicism! Faith of my childhood, thou art not.

So I took pictures of the outside instead.

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New Photo Blitz

June 18, 2008 · 3 Comments

Although this blog is more about how the sausage is made than the meal that results, I do have some new work I’d like to share.

These shots from Italian Glamour were the products of my first- and second-ever editorials. The issue finally came out in March, if I recall correctly.

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Sunglasses photo by Stefania Paparelli. Jeans photo by Fabio Chizzola. Fashion Editor for both shoots: Eduardo Marchioli

Meanwhile, Greek Cosmopolitan was my second-most-recent editorial. (You may recall my post about the shoot.) And it came out, like, two minutes ago. Fashion: bending the time-space continuum to its own ends since Madeleine Vionnet invented cutting on the bias.

Peep the heavy-duty stylist’s clamp holding the dress on.

I guard those sandals — which Iphigenia made and then gave to the three models you see here — with my life. Iphigenia, wherever you are, you are one bad-arse Greek stylista (and your name still rocks my geeky classics-loving face off).

These photos by Vassilis Karydis. Fashion Editor: Iphigenia Mataraga.

Meanwhile, the test I wrote about here merits posting an extract.

See, first we run through the meadow. Look how sweet we look!

Then I seduce the helpless male model with my feminine wiles. I’m sneaky like that.

These photos by Colette de Barros.

And then there was this test. Pretty fun.

This, from memory, is a Comme des Garçons matador jacket and Calvin Klein underwear.

The aforementioned pretty Demeulemeester feathered thing, and Elle MacPherson skivvies.

Prada dress; belt worn as necklace, makeup artist’s own. We shot in a hotel room, and the afternoon sunshine on the 98-degree day filtered through the white net curtains so beautifully. It was like working inside a softbox. And then we drank Bloody Marys!

These photos by Brian Sassmann.

That concludes fashion show-and-tell for now.

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Eat the rich

June 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Apologies for my few recent updates. I haven’t felt motivated to write. But I am enjoying New York City, and have some fun travel plans in the works — which will doubtless provide plenty of blogfodder.

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